Consider David Foster Wallace
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by David Hering
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sideshow Media Group; SSMG Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780976146575
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's preface / David Hering; title: Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace / Greg Carlisle; title: The book, the broom and the ladder; philosophical groundings in the work of David Foster Wallace / Clare Hayes-Brady; title: A blasted region: David Foster Wallace's man-made landscapes / Graham Foster; title: David Foster Wallace: westward with Fredric Jameson / Connie Luther; title: Consider Berkeley & Co.: reading "Westward the course of empire takes its way" / Philip Coleman; title: The ideal athlete: John Wayne in Infinite jest / Gregory Phipps; title: Infinite jest: triangles, cycles, choices & chases / David Hering; title: "Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders": chaos and realism in Infinite jest / Kiki Benzon; title: Impervious to U.S. parsing: encyclopedism, autism, and Infinite jest / Matt Tresco; title: Infinite jests: David Foster Wallace & Laurence Sterne / Christopher Thomas; title: David Foster Wallace and the new sincerity in American fiction / Adam Kelly; title: "Quote unquote love... a type of scotopia": David Foster Wallace's Brief interviews with hideous men / Christoforos Diakoulakis; title: "That is not wholly true": notes on annotation in David Foster Wallace's shorter fiction (and non-fiction) / Iannis Goerlandt; title: Representations of trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion / Thomas Tracey; title: Seething static: notes on Wallace and journalism / Christoph Ribbat; title: Don't compare, identify: David Foster Wallace on John McCain / Paul Jenner; title: This is water and the ethics of attention: Wallace, Murdoch and Nussbaum / Daniel Turnbull.